[Larceny-users] open-input-file "unable to open file" on 8GB file

[William D Clinger]

David Rush wrote:

> I'm running larceny 0.98, for which I have written a number of logfile
> analysis programs, but I can't seem to get started on my latest (and
> largest) log file.

I was not aware of this problem, but Sven Hartrumpf's response is correct:
Larceny is unable to create or to read files larger than 2 GiB because it
was built in 32-bit mode, and the 2 GiB limit is built into the standard
32-bit libraries.

> Do I have to wait for 64-bit Larceny?

You won't be able to use Scheme's standard file i/o on files larger than
2 GiB until Larceny moves to 64 bits.

Sven suggested a workaround, however:

> A work-around (for bigloo) is to read from standard input (and not from a file),
> but I have not tested this with larceny.

I have confirmed that this workaround works in Larceny.

Will